Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 2 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 3 | Dad told him I 'd lost that labouring job and he said if that was what I wanted to do , he had a job repairing houses he owns . ’ |
| 4 | In the Merry & Co office , I 'd learned that each carriage ( built of strong unpainted corrugated aluminium with the corrugated lying horizontally ) was eighty-five feet long ; and there were fifteen carriages in all , counting the horses , the baggage and the Lorrimores . |
| 5 | and I was thinking where on earth is there a shop in that sells , sells things like that or do you have to go to a garage and I 'd forgotten that that fruit |
| 6 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 7 | As the lorry braked ferociously in the lonely country road with a hiss of air brakes , and began to career backwards towards my Mini , its reversing lights two angry eyes beaming at me , I began to see that same skyline as the place I most wanted to be . |
| 8 | As we began to talk I began to realize that these people were just like me . |
| 9 | Come to think of it , I did hear that those nuns had caught themselves a gypsy . |
| 10 | ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 11 | But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married . |
| 12 | I had seen that ominous trembling of the limbs before and now the filly was beginning to sway a little . |
| 13 | Neither Julia nor I had realised that some delegates would be registering on the Saturday morning for the first time — we had n't covered this . |
| 14 | I had hoped that Scottish mountaineers , so proud of their heritage , would say , ‘ To hell with metres ’ , and remain loyal to the altitudes listed by Munro , but I now find , to my dismay , that the Scottish Mountaineering Club , the publishers of the Tables , in their most recent edition , have also succumbed to Europe and sacrificed a cherished independence by converting all heights to metres . |
| 15 | I had hoped that some progress would be made in the autumn and I am disappointed that that has not happened . |
| 16 | I had hoped that these weekends of dashing about Britain with estate agents ' details in my lap were a thing of the past . |
| 17 | Yes I I I had noted that that discussion had gone on and assurances have been given to Humberside that North Yorkshire would no stray in the sense of putting their new settlement into Humberside . |
| 18 | I had thought that high crime was dog-earing and the highest of all writing comments in the margin . |
| 19 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 20 | But I had to accept that this examination was far more important to them . |
| 21 | I had known that open fields lay at the end of the runway , so I should have closed the throttle earlier and completed the familiar drill . |
| 22 | I wanted to ensure that foreign visitors who came to this country were also covered by insurance . |
| 23 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |
| 24 | The arguments in Beyond the Pleasure Principle which sought to establish that all organisms aim at death , a return to the state of inanimate matter , were admitted by Freud to be ones which could be overthrown by later biological research . |
| 25 | She describes them , for example , as ‘ infantilised ’ ; she accepts without question research which purported to show that most women despised each other ( Millett , 1977 , p. 55 ) ; she sees women as having little ‘ self-respect ’ , and as devoting almost all their time and attention to pleasing and flattering men . |
| 26 | In stark terms , B has been denied a judgment by a tribunal which had agreed that certain issues should be heard by it and upon which it had heard argument . |
| 27 | Although the draft reaffirmed the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , it proposed that foreign affairs , security and home affairs would come within the ambit of EC institutions , unlike the earlier Luxembourg draft , which had proposed that such areas be subject to intergovernmental co-operation . |
| 28 | You 'd thought that these houses could of least put a bit of paint on |
| 29 | Sarella turned in time to catch Marc 's worried glance following the reckless path of the jeep , but then he turned , and she could almost believe she 'd imagined that fleeting expression when he gave her a cynical smile and said , ‘ If it 's proverbs he wants I could have swopped him a more appropriate one . ’ |
| 30 | She 'd dented that enormous ego of his , had n't she ? |